Were it alone in these methods, public scorn would long ago have made short work of the Standard Oil Company. But it is simply the most conspicuous type of what can be done by these practices.
IDA TARBELLYet Mr. Rockefeller has systematically played with loaded dice, and it is doubtful if there has ever been a time since 1872 when he has run a race with a competitor and started fair.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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Now, if the Standard Oil Company were the only concern in the country guilty of the practices which have given it monopolistic power this story never would have been written.
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My final comment is that I still believe this man [John D. Rockefeller] is corrupt and he used unfair ways to become wealthy, all he cared about was his money and wasn’t considered.
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Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.
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we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.
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It is not alone that justice is wounded by denying women a part in the making of the civilized world.
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One of the most depressing features of the ethical side of the matter is that instead of such methods arousing contempt they are more or less openly admired. And this is logical.
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I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.
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Life is but a collection of habits.
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The theory that the man who raises corn does a more important piece of work than the woman who makes it into bread is absurd.
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Sacredness of human life! The world has never believed it! It has been with life that we settled our quarrels, won wives, gold and land, defended ideas, imposed religions.
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To denumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.
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A mind truly cultivated never feels that the intellectual process is complete until it can reproduce in some media the thing which it has absorbed.
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A more immediate wrong is the way the movement for a fuller, freer life for all human beings is hampered.
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The only reason I am glad I am a woman is because I will not have to marry one.
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There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.
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